Green Algae
Brilliant white when bleached in sun.
What is cactus algae?
Turns dark brown on beach.
What is pelagic sargassum?
Have bitter chemicals that discourage grazing by fish
What is iridescent-banded algae?
Where branching coralline algae grows
What is shallow seagrass beds?
pale yellow rhizomes with green branch bearing stubby branchlets that end in swollen tips
What is grape caulerpa
green brown bubble ball that appear partially flattened
What is Ballon seaweed
Have a photosynthesis pigment that absorbs blue light
what is red algae
Has brown red branches with tiny stiff pointed branchlets
What is red spineweed
Sphere looks like a smooth, turgid, dark-green, miniature water ballon
What is Sailors eye (bubble algae)
Green brown blades with concentric bands
What is intridescent- banded algae
LContainers sugar protein for buoyancy so strands remain upright
what is the bubble branchlets of red grapes
Fragile, pale link branches with stubby branchlets
What is graceful red weed
Long, with forked, spongy, bright- to dirty green fingers attached at a single hold fast
What’s is Green fleece
Fan shaped fronds with an in-rolled outer margin
What is padina
As it drifts it provides a habitat life raft for hundreds of species of animals
What is sargassum
Grows in wiry tangled yelloish brown clumps with sickle hook ends
What is hypnea
The growing algae are firmly anchored by their stiff stalk to a mass of rhizoids
What is Shaving brush algae
Olive brown fronds with smooth margins and blunt tips
What is dictyota
Much of the white beaches in the keys is made up of this green sea weed
What is Pulverized cactus
Have numerous Bubble like branchlets
What is red grapes